As I mentioned on Facebook yesterday, I got tired just TYPING up my training schedule. I didn’t think that boded well for actually starting to run. And I was right – kinda. I’m doing a hybrid training program, mashing together the plan from the Women’s Health publication “Run Your Butt Off” (oh please, oh please, oh please, let that happen!) and “The Non-Runners Marathon Guide for Women” by Dawn Dais. The latter is my favorite,…
Desperate times, my friends, call for logos containing pirate parrots. So here’s what I’m planning to do.
… and by “people” I mean the four folks I’ve talked to about my last entry. 🙂 I’m all done with cyber-dating. As my friend Emily said just today, “If being matched with your former boss isn’t a sign, I don’t know what would be!” In fact, I think I’ll just quote Emily’s e-mail to me this morning for the rest of this post, because she’s really smart: God is bigger than Christian Mingle… despite…
As I’ve mentioned here before, I’ve been in the trenches of cyber-dating for a decade now. I’ve had some great experiences, some not-so-great, some just downright nuts, but overall I’m glad I’ve done it. But I’m thinking I might be done. A few weekends ago, I was writing to a man in Minneapolis who seemed really nice, but came with lots of baggage (two pre-teen daughters and a crazy Russian ex-wife. Seriously. He’s a former…
There are lots of stories in the Bible that pretty much blow me away. I was listening to a teaching a few weeks ago, and the pastor cited a story about the prophet Elisha. Apparently, according to 2 Kings 2, when a bunch of local boys were making fun of Elisha for being bald, Elisha called down a curse on them and two bears came out of the woods. And ATE. THEM. Seriously. That ain’t…